Why Do They Call It an Xbox 360
Dec. 13th, 2024 05:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghoulmouseHaven't been posting much here but it's pointless to apologize every time I fall off posting, so I won't.
The Game Awards were tonight and for some reason I watch them religiously every year, even though I couldn't possibly care less about most of the games mentioned. It's somehow fun to complain about it with my friends, and in a weird way it makes me feel great about video games in general. Somehow seeing a whole bunch of bloated-budget garbage helps me remember how many incredible games there are out there -- games that were made with love and joy and talent. So many I couldn't play all of them if I spent the rest of my life doing nothing but playing video games. Thoughts include:
-- Congratulations to Okami fans
-- Games which were robbed include: Unicorn Overlord, 1000xResist, Mouthwashing, Animal Well, Nine Sols, probably Prince of Persia: the Lost Crown which I haven't played but everyone I know who did seems to love it
-- Watching them give an award to a guy essentially running damage control for sweeping layoffs was unbearable
-- I have seen so many trailers for Infinity Nikki and not one of them has showed the dressup interface, which I consider a bad sign
-- Creative director for Warframe was onstage and the only person with any fashion sense
-- I don't know why I'm so resistant to Arcane, I guess it's got that League of Legends grime all over it
-- Congrats Balatro
-- I really just cannot get into games with realistic graphics sorry. I need my games to look like somebody made them.
Incidentally I've been playing insane amounts of Unicorn Overlord. I cannot say enough good things about it, honestly -- it's SO good. Pretty much the perfect evolution of the formula set out by Ogre Battle, a formula which so very few strategy games have looked to. I could spend hours micromanaging all my little guys and their equipment and their detailed tactical loadouts.
Unbelievably, it contains a sad blonde prince named Gilbert. Two nickels, etc. He didn't bail on the royal title to go wander around incognito, but his brother did, so I guess it's just a blonde RPG prince thing generally.
I had Alain marry the erstwhile brother, who might be my favorite character? There are a lot of characters but dang it you cannot expect me to resist a dashing swashbuckler who is secretly a prince. He randomly brought up Gilbert while they were exchanging rings, though, so IDK maybe Alain is gonna have to marry both of them. Hope he's open-minded.
I'm encroaching upon the end of the game, though, so I'll need a new RPG to play (probably Romancing Saga 3 or Ni no Kuni 2).
The Game Awards were tonight and for some reason I watch them religiously every year, even though I couldn't possibly care less about most of the games mentioned. It's somehow fun to complain about it with my friends, and in a weird way it makes me feel great about video games in general. Somehow seeing a whole bunch of bloated-budget garbage helps me remember how many incredible games there are out there -- games that were made with love and joy and talent. So many I couldn't play all of them if I spent the rest of my life doing nothing but playing video games. Thoughts include:
-- Congratulations to Okami fans
-- Games which were robbed include: Unicorn Overlord, 1000xResist, Mouthwashing, Animal Well, Nine Sols, probably Prince of Persia: the Lost Crown which I haven't played but everyone I know who did seems to love it
-- Watching them give an award to a guy essentially running damage control for sweeping layoffs was unbearable
-- I have seen so many trailers for Infinity Nikki and not one of them has showed the dressup interface, which I consider a bad sign
-- Creative director for Warframe was onstage and the only person with any fashion sense
-- I don't know why I'm so resistant to Arcane, I guess it's got that League of Legends grime all over it
-- Congrats Balatro
-- I really just cannot get into games with realistic graphics sorry. I need my games to look like somebody made them.
Incidentally I've been playing insane amounts of Unicorn Overlord. I cannot say enough good things about it, honestly -- it's SO good. Pretty much the perfect evolution of the formula set out by Ogre Battle, a formula which so very few strategy games have looked to. I could spend hours micromanaging all my little guys and their equipment and their detailed tactical loadouts.
Unbelievably, it contains a sad blonde prince named Gilbert. Two nickels, etc. He didn't bail on the royal title to go wander around incognito, but his brother did, so I guess it's just a blonde RPG prince thing generally.
I had Alain marry the erstwhile brother, who might be my favorite character? There are a lot of characters but dang it you cannot expect me to resist a dashing swashbuckler who is secretly a prince. He randomly brought up Gilbert while they were exchanging rings, though, so IDK maybe Alain is gonna have to marry both of them. Hope he's open-minded.
I'm encroaching upon the end of the game, though, so I'll need a new RPG to play (probably Romancing Saga 3 or Ni no Kuni 2).
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Date: 2024-12-13 02:47 pm (UTC)I’m totally just having fun with the gameplay. It is so much better than what they were doing with Grand Knights History (although I got stuck because the game necessitated online play for leveling and it’s dead and also I’m not in Japan lol). Playing around with the formations and the tactics is so interesting!
I don’t care for the game awards but I still think it sucks when deserving games get overlooked
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Date: 2024-12-14 12:45 pm (UTC)I've never played Grand Knights History for all those reasons...the servers shut down only a few years after it launched anyway, didn't it? Unicorn Overlord IIRC took like... a zillion years to make, so it was clearly a passion project, which is awesome and also you can absolutely tell.
I don't actually care about the results of the game awards (they always give the awards to AAA sludge anyway), but in a weird way watching it and being like "ugh I would have nominated/awarded THIS instead" is kind of a nice way to reflect about the games that I played this year. Although I'm usually several years behind on releases, unless they're indie games (Unicorn Overlord was an exception because of how much I love Ogre Battle, and I'm really glad I decided to pick it up close to release!)